- A 13-year-old American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea into a peace park tried to get the Chinese president’s attention on Monday by staging a brief protest near Tiananmen Square before being led away by police.
- 10,000 anti-NATO protesters marched peacefully through downtown Lisbon on Saturday and police detained several dozen activists who blocked a road for participating delegates and government officials.
- Activists from Greenpeace staged a protest outside the Environment Ministry in Copenhagen yesterday to protest a shipment of a highly toxic chemical from Australia.
- Hundreds of pilots from Continental and United airlines picketed Newark Liberty International Airport Monday to protest the outsourcing of their work to other airlines.
- Several hundred demonstrators protesting proposed tax law changes that will cripple small businesses defied authorities Tuesday and set up a small tent camp in the center of the Ukrainian capital.
- More than 200 asylum seekers at the Christmas Island detention center, many with their mouths sewn shut, have been on hunger strike since last week to protest conditions that led to the suicide of an Iraqi detainee.
- Some 30 inmates of Uzbekistan’s notorious Zhaslyq prison have been on a hunger strike since the end of October to protest their treatment.
